Human acts a novel
When a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed in the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope unfolds the tale of a brutalized peop...
| Main Author: | Han, Kang, 1970- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Smith, Deborah, 1987- (Translator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Korean |
| Published: |
New York :
Hogarth,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
When a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed in the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope unfolds the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice. |
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| Item Description: |
English translation of Korean title: Sonyŏn i onda ("The Boy is Coming"). "This translation originally published, in slightly different form, in Great Britain by Portobello Books, London"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: |
218 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781101906729 1101906723 |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |